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Scott and Jake review MotoAmerica races at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.  The huge 4mile circuit built in the '50s has several long straights that produce many drafting battles.  Warhorse Ducati continues to suffer a disappointing Superbike season riddled with bad luck and misfortune, Binder is now the favorite in Supersport, and Jake thinks he knows why Hayden Gillim is the fastest on a Bagger.

Jim and Rich are joined by Karl Hun, who just returned from the races at Mugello, to talk about all the racing action.  Moto3 was as exciting as ever.  It kicked off with qualifying when many riders missed their final laps because they waited in the pits too long.  Quiles never could catch a tow and ended up starting from 15th.  He soon raced his way to the front but almost high sided in the last corner on the penultimate and finished off the podium for the first time this year. 

The Moto2 was the best one of the weekend as all the intrigue was during the last four laps.  Viette was closing fast on the leaders after failing to get out of QP1.  He tired his best but could not catch Gonzalez.  Ortola's great ride was halted by a technical problem.  Finally a shout out to Escrig who had an excellent qualifying but was taken off the track by Lopez, who received a long lap penalty.

The MotoGP race saw Aprilia sweep the front row in qualifying, set a new top speed record of 229.3MPH and wins in both the sprint and GP on Sunday.  Marc Marquez returned to racing and finish fourth in the Sprint and seventh in the Gp after a race long battle with future team mate Acosta.

If possible please donate to Maria Costello recovery fund.  She was paralyzed from the chest down in one of the sidecar races at the TT  https://www.gofundme.com/f/maria-costello-mbe-road-to-recovery

Finally to all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom…

Karl and Danny review Round 5 of World Superbikes at Most in the Czech Republic and Round 2 of the British Superbikes at Donington Park. There were changes and surprises within WSBK and BSB but these were short lived and normal service was resumed with the top riders showing their true colours. Karl also surprises us with the news that he's going to Mugello.....this is a shock to everybody. 

 

To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom…

Scott and Jake review MotoAmerica races at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama after spending three days at the beautiful racetrack under sunny skies.  There was great racing and also some unfortunate crashes - Ella Dreher perhaps suffering the most: Support-Ella-Here. Scott interviewed Jayson Uribe (102:50), Kayla Yaakov (110:54), Alessandro Di Mario (116:18) on Friday, and Mathew Scholtz (122:04) on Saturday.  Jake interviewed Kensei Matsudaira (127:45) and JD Beach (134:32) on Saturday.

To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom…

MotoGP Round 6 came from the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The weekend was unseasonally cold throughout, leading to many crashes across the weekend. In Moto3, Max Quilles continued to dominate, whilst in Moto2 Manuel Gonzales took the win to further strengthen his early hold on the title fight. In MotoGP we had an exciting Saturday Sprint race, followed by a main Grand Prix with 3 starts following red flags for serious crashes involving Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco. Miraculously, neither rider was mortally injured. Equally miraculously were the other riders caught up in the chaos, one of whom would go on to win the race following the 3rd start. It was a race that highlighted the inherent danger of motorcycle racing, and the need to pause for deep contemplation when considering street races.

To all of our listeners, please support the show financially if you can and don’t forget to connect with us via the social media channels and spread the word amongst your like-minded race fan friends. In the MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group age, we need subscribers and downloads to help us push through the door for access to teams and riders. Your support will help us in trying to achieve those aims and keep MotoPod up there as the longest running and most heavily supported motorcycle road racing podcast. Cheers and here’s to an action packed 2026. Zoom Zoom…….